U.S.14 - Springfield - MP 80.7MN151
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/1,027 ft/9 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cobden until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 52° today.
Now. Cobden is 45° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Cobden, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.53 in in the last 24 hours, 0.61 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cobden, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Cobden, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
U.S.14 - Springfield - MP 80.7MN151
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/1,027 ft/9 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fairfax 5S - Fort RidgelyFRGM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.4 mi away/979 ft/57 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
New Ulm MuniULM
At an airfield/17.4 mi away/1,010 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW7572DW7572
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.5 mi away/1,002 ft/34 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sleepy Eye 0.8 SWMN-BW-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/1,018 ft/18 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lamberton SW Exp StaLAMM5
At a cooperative observer's station/23.3 mi away/1,135 ft/99 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.4 mi from Cobden, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,200 ft, overcast at 3,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 42.8 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of New Ulm Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lamberton SW Exp Sta (LAMM5), 23.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.